A Confluence of Grapes is humor writer Steve Pulley's third volume of short stories and poems. In this collection you'll find romance tragedy angst euphoria adventure thrills spills impending disaster unforeseen windfalls aliens of this world aliens not of this world Pangborneans galore doppelgängers pugs pookas magicians Korean soap opera freaks Phrigofaxian abacus freaks bedtime stories werewolves ghosts blanked-out writers overwrought actors buccaneers in arrears hilarious undertakings awkward encounters and an all-around mixed bag of goofy goings-on. And every once in a while there's actually even something serious and thought-provoking.